print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.9304
- Title
- Object: Expulsion of the fiend.
- Description
-
George IV (right), flatteringly depicted, has risen from his arm-chair to kick Cumberland, the orang-outang of BM Satires No. 16026, saying, '—Hence to some foreign clime Where only thou canst find thy parallel'. The Duke, with his hairy torso slanting to the left, right knee bent, escapes, scowl-back at the King. On the wall is a framed copy of BM Satires No. 16011, reversed, inscribed 'The Man wot Wiolates the Grave'. c. February 1830
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1830
- Dimensions
-
Height: 216 millimetres
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Width: 301 millimetres (cut)
- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954)
See No. 16011, &c. Cumberland asserted that the campaign against him over the Graves affair was a Ministerial manoeuvre. On 23 Feb. he wrote to Eldon: "That Party thought to frighten me and make me leave the country, but by God nothing shall." He was, he said, well received by the King at Windsor on 1 Mar. 'Letters of George IV', iii. 508. Cf. No. 15843.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.9304
